Re: devfs vs. udev

Greg KH
2003-10-17T05:01:55Z

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:51:43PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
>
> 2) I believe udev does not support for an increased number of anonymous
> devices for such things as NFS and autofs mounts. I can't see anything in
> the kernel (2.6) to improve this either. Can devfs provide improvements
> for this without to much pain?

udev has no control over this. If the kernel supports an increased
number, udev will support it. The number of raw devices has recently
been increased, due to the new major/minor increase. Such a patch for
anonymous devices could probably be easily created.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h